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Gender, Development and Social Change is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.3). Published by Palgrave Macmillan.
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ISSN 2730-7328Verify ISSN ↗2730-7336Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gender Studies | 111 / 233 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 392 / 745 | 47th | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 820 / 1530 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025–present (also 2019–2023, 2016–2017, 2014, 2012), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.3.
Gender, Development and Social Change is Q2 in Gender Studies (rank 111 of 233), Q3 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 392 of 745) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 820 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Gender, Development and Social Change is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q2, 52nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Gender, Development and Social Change is published by Palgrave Macmillan. Its print ISSN is 2730-7328 and its online ISSN is 2730-7336.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Gender, Development and Social Change has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 0.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #145 of 225 Scopus journals in Gender Studies.
Gender, Development and Social Change published 45 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 56. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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